Finding the Cheapest Health Insurance Quote

Title:Finding the Cheapest Health Insurance QuoteWord Count:290Summary:Finding the cheapest health insurance quote is one of the most important tasks for any consumer.You need to take care of certain factors before you compare quotes of different insuranceproviders.Keywords:free health insurance quote, health insuranceArticle Body:Finding the cheapest health insurance quote is one of the most important tasks for any consumer.抯You need to take care of certain factors before you compare quotes of different insuranceproviders. Let see how you can get the cheapest health insurance quote in the mostcomfortable manner.Do a thorough researchAlways gather sufficient information before investing in any quote for your health insurance. Abetter understanding will help you pull the best possible quote. If you invest time today, youwill surely get the benefit later.Comparing different quotes

抯It not a tedious task to get quotes from leading insurers and compare them to get the bestvalue. If you are looking at comparing insurance quotes of two companies, do not compare juston the basis of the rates. Instead, consider other related factors that contribute in giving you apackage covering all your requirements. If you are comparing different health plans offered bytwo different service providers, always evaluate the given plans having almost same features interms of benefits and coverage.Compare quotes on webThe best and the easiest way to compare the quotes is an online comparison. You can findseveral websites offering online quotes comparison service. You just need to give your zip codeas an input and you can access instant online health insurance quotes. Do not fall prey towebsites selling health insurance as they can supply false and misleading quotes information.Don't get lured by lower deductiblesNo doubt getting a lower deductible seems like a profitable deal. But, avoid short-term benefits抣and think in terms of long run by choosing higher deductible. If you opt for a lower deductible,you l end up paying a higher premium.Title:Instant Messaging and P2P Vulnerabilities for Health OrganizationsWord Count:820Summary:Instant messaging and P2P file sharing present very critical vulnerabilities to healthorganizations who must be careful to protect patient data.Keywords:internet filters,internet filtering,internet monitoringArticle Body:Because of HIPAA legislation, health organizations have to be particularly careful about thevulnerability of the patient data they maintain. Exposing patient data to the Internet through IMexchanges or P2P file sharing can jeopardize their compliance with a variety of state and federalregulations. The popularity of IM and P2P protocols has penetrated every aspect of our societyincluding those organizations entrusted with sensitive data such as health records. Theopportunity for data to be exposed to eyes outside an organization has increased whether suchexposure is intentional or not and organizations bound by HIPAA regulations are required toprotect their patient data or suffer the consequences.Often in hospital situations, employees on different shifts are sharing workstations. Many ofthem may be communicating with family and friends, outside the organization, via Instant

Messaging or P2P and can unknowingly download a malicious agent that can damage not onlyindividual workstations, but entire networks. Because many people may have access to thesame computer, this activity is difficult to trace and can occur with alarming ease.When a malicious program is downloaded, it can exploit a back door in the system andproliferate across the network. Depending on the nature of the parasitic code, patientinformation may be accessed and transmitted from behind the firewall to a designated IPaddress or it may launch an attack against the host network. These types of attacks can bring thenetwork down. Even short downtime can cause significant financial and data loss.<b>Public Communications</b>Adding more complexity to the situation, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) andthe National Association of Securities Dealers Inc. (NASD) identify Instant Messaging trafficas communications with the public that companies must save and monitor. The Sarbanes-OxleyAct requires even those instant messages that are casual and personal to be saved and recordedas formal correspondence.Many companies capture and store the data as required by law. Because this information can beused as legal evidence, there are several instances where data contained on message boards andvia IMs were submitted to support or defeat a case being adjudicated. Imagine if medical advicewere contained in an IM, even something as innocuous as advising Tylenol for a feverish child.Such correspondence could be used to make a medical malpractice case against a nurse orphysician.<b>Network Security</b>IM and P2P also expose end-user equipment to worms, viruses and other backdoor softwarethat -once introduced, can infect a network and inflict damage on a wide scale. Employee abuseof their computer privileges can be the silent destroyer of networks. Whether it is a dramaticproblem such as denial of service or the downloading of backdoor worms and viruses, themisuse can be dangerous and damaging and ultimately undermines network security.Managers of network security need to take advantage of hardware appliance solutions in orderto fully protect their networks from employee abuse and misuse. The damage to productivityand profits of a company are only the tip of the iceberg. Introducing a filtering option that抰does not have a single point of failure, or cause latency in network traffic is critical. Equallyimportant, a solution that doesn need to share memory or processing power with another抯device is the best choice to protect networks against security breaches and legal liability andto help preserve the corporation good reputation.<b>Legal Liabilities</b>P2P and IM file sharing can be dangerous applications that quickly devour bandwidth andjeopardize company finances because companies can be held liable for employee actions suchas downloading copyrighted song material. In addition, P2P and IMs can contain malicious抯software that downloads and installs itself into the host network; a company computers andnetworks may be used to launch denial of service (DoS) attacks on other companies andnetworks.

There is an established legal precedent that will hold a company liable in part for the damagesinflicted on another company if their computers or networks were used to stage the attack.Because of this legal precedent, the danger to a host network is not just the loss of bandwidth抯and subsequent breakdown in communications, but also the legal liabilities involved can resultin damage to a company or organization reputation, and even threaten its financial stability.抯 抯It important to note that the damage to an organization reputation can be more costly inthe long run, especially if the organization is supposed to be secure and web savvy or if securityvulnerabilities can threaten to expose sensitive data such as health records. For hospitals, healthinsurance and dedicated health care providers, such damage can result in a loss of business overtime that devastates their long term prospects and when combined with -short term fines, caneven mean going out of business or experiencing a takeover by another health care company.Using Multiple Pets to Find Pet Health Insurance for a Low CostYou love your pets. They are the first things you see when you wake up in the morning. Theylay at your feet while your eating breakfast, they run with you as you get your early morningexercise, they look heart broken when you leave them behind, when you get home from a longday at work they are so happy to see you that they can hardly contain their joy, they listenattentively as you rant and rave about the trails and tribulations of your day, at night they crawlinto bed with you and keep the nightmares at bay while you sleep. What they don't do iscriticize you, judge you, or abandon you.抯There is very little you wouldn't do for your pets. That what you think almost everyday ofthe year but on the days you have to take them to the vet and pay the obligatory bill you have towonder. All your cat had done was a treatment for a mild case of ear mites. And your dog hadbeen a yearly rabies vaccination. The whole processes for both pets took less then fifteenminutes. How could it possible cost so much?You might be able to see the benefits of pet health insurance. You might salivate at the idea ofnot dealing with the ginourmous vet bills you get every six months ago. You might evendaydream about the day you don't dread the financial repercussions of taking your dog or catthe vet. But right now you simply don't think you can afford to monthly bill a pet healthinsurance bill would put on your budget, after all its not like having pet health insurance wouldmake the vet bills completely disappear, more then likely you would still have to pay the officevisit.抰You might not think you can afford pet health insurance at the moment but don walk awayfrom an offer, not yet. Looking at a policy does not mean that you have to walk away from it. Ifyou are a clever bargain shopper there are ways to find pet health insurance at a low cost.If you have more then one pet you probably automatically qualify for a lower premium. Lots ofpet health insurance companies offer multiple pet discounts. There is one little catch, a lot of thecompanies only offer multiple pet discounts if the pets are the same species. In other words ifyou have two cats that you insure you will pay a lower premium but if you have a cat and a doglots of pet health insurance companies will consider it two completely different accounts.

Are you starting to despair? Don't worry two much, while many companies don't consider petsof separate species ground for a multiple pet discount a lot of those same companies have apolicy that offers discounts to customers who carry more then policy with the company. Themultiple policy discount usually takes about ten percent off the total bill but a good bargainsshopper can find companies that offer higher discounts all they have to do is be willing to spendthe time to shoe around.